Pistacjowatarta (K.P) // Sharpen your mind. Soften your heart.

movies used to be beautifully lit

(wanting to make a post about something but it reveals too much about your personal life) i have had a negative experience

am i even mentally ill or am i just living in some kind of infinite torture chamber that would make anyone like this

(muttering to myself constantly for the past ten years) i just need a little time haha and then i’ll jump right back in

there are corners of this website where the year is still 2013. and sometimes, on beautiful nights when the veil is thin, you can find them . if you know where to look

hey man i noticed you were locked outside of your own life and you haven’t been able to get back in

I have so much love and respect for women who are honest about their own loneliness but also find the good in it like when audrey hepburn said “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel” and when charlotte bronte said “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself” and when jenny slate said “I think I’ve come to terms with the fact that there will always be a ribbon of loneliness running through who I am. But that’s why I want to do comedy, and why I want to connect with people. You can use that ribbon to be a part of a finer tapestry, or you can choke yourself out with it! Your choice!” and when mary oliver said “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things”

so exhausted by how fundamentally anti-human the capitalist world has become. like ageing, getting fat, being slightly inefficient, and making mediocre art are all extremely normal and extremely human activities, why is every corporation trying to convince us to spend all our money fighting that

Your routines are a love letter to your future self

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Physically journaling again (instead of journaling in my notes app, on my iPad, on Notion, etc.) has truly healed me in ways I didn’t think were possible.

anyway… if anyone is looking to improve their reading & writing skills, i highly recommend this article by celine nguyen, which analyses the opening paragraphs of good essays to understand how and why they work. focuses on nonfiction but could apply generally i think